Multimedia and Tech Blog
The universe is kind of humbling
Sep 17, 2007
Briefly: some site updates. All the pages are re-styled and back to normal (woohoo!). The code is also more search-engine friendly. On top of that, I've been diddling with some other back-end code stuff for my own personal enjoyment. For example, now there are clean blog permalink URLs, which means that if you want to link directly to one of my blog posts (haha why on earth would you do that?), it's just delvarworld.com/blogs/## instead of the old "delvarworld.com/index.php?blog=##. Very clean, and it tricks search engines into thinking it's a permanent address so hopefully it will be indexed better. I'm also posting this from my spiffy new update form which you can never, ever see or use because I'm amazing and secret. Now, enough of the site news.
I would consider this Monday a "bad" day. I've been having some trouble falling asleep recently (I seem to turn on my creative mode automatically around midnight). I woke up late today and was late for work, not by more than a few minutes, but I hate having to rush in the morning. Then on my way home for my lunch break I lost fifteen minutes waiting for a train. Then again after work there was another train. At home I felt completely exhausted and tried to take a nap but just lay in my bed for an hour and a half, making me too tired to go to capoeira tonight.
Later that evening (it just became Tuesday) I was working on some JavaScript for the site , and one part of my script kept failing; throwing errors and behaving erratically. Everything seemed to be going wrong for me. I asked one of my friends on AIM that I hadn't talked to in a while if he knew anything about the code problem I was having. He said no, sorry. Then he told me he had cancer.
This is someone who I consider a good friend from my middle school days before he went off to a vocational high school. I haven't seen him in years, now hundreds of miles away from each other, but we still talk online occasionally. He's a fellow geek but also very outgoing, talented, and well liked. He discovered he had testicular cancer with no apparent cause, which seemed fine after surgery until he found out two weeks ago that it had metastasized to his abs and his back. He's going in for chemotherapy in a week. If he responds well to the chemo he should make a full recovery, but if not he said he has about two years left. He doesn't drink or smoke. He has no family history of cancer. Currently he's working on his thesis in college.
I took another look at my code and found the error almost instantly. I had accidentally written a "2" instead of a "1." My problems didn't seem quite as significant as they did before.
Life is funny, guys. Funny in a weird, rather ungraspable way. As soon as I think I've figured it all out another coconut falls out of the sky and hits me over the head. A little perspective is always a great thing to have.
I would consider this Monday a "bad" day. I've been having some trouble falling asleep recently (I seem to turn on my creative mode automatically around midnight). I woke up late today and was late for work, not by more than a few minutes, but I hate having to rush in the morning. Then on my way home for my lunch break I lost fifteen minutes waiting for a train. Then again after work there was another train. At home I felt completely exhausted and tried to take a nap but just lay in my bed for an hour and a half, making me too tired to go to capoeira tonight.
Later that evening (it just became Tuesday) I was working on some JavaScript for the site , and one part of my script kept failing; throwing errors and behaving erratically. Everything seemed to be going wrong for me. I asked one of my friends on AIM that I hadn't talked to in a while if he knew anything about the code problem I was having. He said no, sorry. Then he told me he had cancer.
This is someone who I consider a good friend from my middle school days before he went off to a vocational high school. I haven't seen him in years, now hundreds of miles away from each other, but we still talk online occasionally. He's a fellow geek but also very outgoing, talented, and well liked. He discovered he had testicular cancer with no apparent cause, which seemed fine after surgery until he found out two weeks ago that it had metastasized to his abs and his back. He's going in for chemotherapy in a week. If he responds well to the chemo he should make a full recovery, but if not he said he has about two years left. He doesn't drink or smoke. He has no family history of cancer. Currently he's working on his thesis in college.
I took another look at my code and found the error almost instantly. I had accidentally written a "2" instead of a "1." My problems didn't seem quite as significant as they did before.
Life is funny, guys. Funny in a weird, rather ungraspable way. As soon as I think I've figured it all out another coconut falls out of the sky and hits me over the head. A little perspective is always a great thing to have.